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Bishop Hay's new edition of the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
Coghlan, James Peter, -1800.Date: 1797]- Books
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Remarks on Bower's Lives of the popes, in a series of letters. By the late Reverend Alban Butler, Author of the Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and principal Saints of the Church.
Butler, Alban, 1711-1773.Date: [1778]- Books
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A chronological index for the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the saints: Containing The Names Of The Popes; Roman Emperors; Emperors of the East and West; Kings of England and of France; Martyrs, Holy Fathers, and other Ecclesiastical Writers; Saints of England, Scotland, Ireland, and of other Countries,-Who are mentioned in Mr Butler's Lives of the Saints, or who have existed since the commencement of the Christian Aera to the present Time:-The Principal Heretics:-The General Councils, Remarkable Events, Persecutions, &c. that have taken place during the above period; including also the Doctrine and Discipline; Religious Institutes, and other Miscellaneous Subjects which occur in the history of each Age of the Church.
Date: 1800- Books
Saints and animals in the Middle Ages / Dominic Alexander.
Alexander, Dominic.Date: 2008- Books
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Popery against Christianity: or, an historical account of the present state of Rome; the election of their Popes, and the proceedings of the Jesuits in China; in England, and other Protestant countries. With an appendix. Containing The Lives and Canonization of the last four Saints; and several Decrees of Popes, contradicting one another. By Parenthenopeus Hereticus.
Gordon, James, active 1719.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]